Big Road Blues Discussion Forums

A place to post guitar tabs separately from other discussion so it doesn’t get lost in the messages. To make it easy to search we suggest starting a new thread for each song posted and include the song name in your title. We’ll be able to make a nice archive if we keep tab here and discussion on the other forums.

New members (without three posts approved) have to go through a moderation queue. This allows us to let spammers reveal themselves so we can ban/delete them. Approval time varies based on our schedules. As an example, in the past few weeks I've moderated posts on:

Feb 28, March 4,6,8,10,11,13.

I delete about a third of the new members due to spam; most of these are not computer programmes but people in high-technology, low-income places like India, so they manage to bypass the usual sorts of Turing tests that will snag a programme. Some of the posts are seemingly on-topic— there was a recent one talking about string gauges that suddenly veered towards credit ratings at the end (including a link).

Could be worse: NeoGAF (video game forum) approves new accounts every 6-12 months and new members are on probation for three months and banned at the slightest provocation.

I own a forum, and moderate another, yes spammers are a huge problem these dayswe have used a few things like your question to join, but that only deters bots, humans are a another problem all together and the motivation is money so you have to keep up on them constantly.

I've tried three different times to post a new topic under "Guitars" without success. Like others have said, I'm not a spammer. If you're not going to allow my post, I'd appreciate an email telling me the reasons. I think that's the least you could do for REAL PEOPLE who are just trying to use a forum that you have made public. It's not good for your forum to leave new members in the dark and wondering what's going on.

Apologies all, life has been hectic; stopped being able to log in from work and just had no energy or time in the evenings. Am working my way downwards through all the unapproved posts from the past two months.

I have posted my first message three weeks ago. It was quickly accepted then I edited it to make it clearer.It has then disapeared (as if it had to pass validation a second time)Since two weeks, It has not shown. Is my message lost?